The Low-Down on Mo: A Conversation with Mo Willems and Hilary Price, Friday August 19th

Hey guys- on Friday there is an event in Columbus called THE LOW-DOWN ON MO: A CONVERSATION WITH MO WILLEMS AND HILARY PRICE 

Mo Willems is a children's book writer and illustrator, and also has a background in writing, directing, and creating art for animation. If you're able to get to the event it could be really interesting.

Mo Willems

Here is the info from the Wexner Center's website:

FREE for all audiences (No RSVP or ticket required) 

Hear from award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems, who discusses his life, career, and creative process with Hilary Price, the creator behind the internationally syndicated comic strip Rhymes with Orange. Parents, educators, librarians, and aspiring children’s book authors won’t want to miss this event! 

A number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, Willems has been awarded three Caldecott Honors for his books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. This year, Willems celebrates the 25th and final book in his long-running Elephant and Piggie series, which has twice won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal. Price has been awarded the “Best Newspaper Panel” four times by the National Cartoonists Society for Rhymes with Orange. Her work also appears in Parade Magazine, The Funny Times, People, and Glamour.

Copresented by Ohio State’s The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. 

Poster by Mo Willems for The Carle Museum

This is his IMDB Page if you want to know more about the TV he has been involved with.

Friday August 19th at 7 PM
Wexner Center for the Arts
1871 N High St, Columbus, Ohio 43210

Reminder- Animator Event tonight!

H everyone, just a reminder about the meetup tonight!

1) Bring your portfolios for review and your questions for answering.
2) Win Anomalisa Stuff + get free Anomalisa stuff
3) Bring your art supplies that need to be re-homed

This is taking place at Essex Studios, Studio #268 (thank you to David Harz, it's his space) at 7:00 pm on Thursday Jan 28th

2511 Essex Pl, Cincinnati, OH 45206

The door to Essex is kept locked but we will be there to let people in at 7:00pm,. If you RSVP I will look out for you. If you're going to be late or if you arrive late you can also text or call me (Darcy) and I will come let you in- (513) 304-9780

Directions to the room: Once you're standing in front of the giant genie in the Essex parking lot, turn right and walk to the wooden steps.  Climb the steps and enter the door at the top of the steps. Once you're in the building, walk straight back til you hit a wall, then turn right and walk straight.  Studio #268 will be on the left side.  See you there!  Call or text with questions!

The Prophet- traditionally animated drama screening

Join us Sunday evening August 23rd to watch the traditionally animated film "The Prophet":

Kamila cleans house for exiled artist and poet Mustafa, but the more difficult job is keeping her free-spirited young daughter, Almitra, out of trouble. The three embark on a journey meant to end with Mustafa's return home - but first they must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in his words will incite rebellion.

The film is traditionally animated drama and based on the book by poet Khalil Gibran that was first published in 1923 but has been read widely around the world since then.

Come see it!

Mariemont Theatre
6906 Wooster Pike
Cincinnati, OH 45227

Sunday August 23 2015
6:30pm showtime
Adult Evening - $9.75
Student - $7.50 every day and night (with student ID)

http://www.mariemonttheatre.com/index.asp

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/907669889304167/

Indie Animation Feature Screening "Cheatin'" and Filmmaker Q+A

Earlier this year Bill Plympton's indie feature "Cheatin" played in Columbus followed by a Q+A by Bill Plympton.

Well, the good news is that this event is happening again in Cincinnati this Thursday evening 8/6/15 in case you couldn't make it to the Columbus one!

The feature will be followed by a Skype Q+A with Bill Plympton as well. This is a great opportunity to not only see a different type of feature but also to ask questions of a man who has produced multiple features on his own and has had a lot of really big clients too. He's basically the ultimate freelancer, which is why he's called the King of Independent Animation.  Can you make it?

Cheatin' Still- Bill Plympton

We could also meet up after for a drink!

Here are details:

Esquire Theatre, Cincinnati

7:30pm

tix: $9.75

Student tix: $7.50

http://www.esquiretheatre.com/events.asp#cheat

Email me at cincycan@gmail.com with any questions :)

Motion Meetup in Cincinnati!

Guys! Motion Meetup with Animators and Motion Artists in Cincinnati is this Thursday 5/14/15 at 6pm! Come and meet people and network! Find out where they work and what they know! Debate the superior cartoons of the day! 

Halfcut

1126 Walnut St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

(513) 381-1952

Quickdraw Tonight!

Open Session 
QUICKDRAW
Two open hours of short poses, to develop speed and capture energy!

Thursday, December 4th, 7-9 pm (tonight!)

Join us for a high-energy evening of OPEN, uninstructed gesture and short-pose figure drawing. Practice capturing movement and hone your intuitive sense of anatomy in a session of life drawing focused on multiple poses and gesture drawing. The session will begin with poses ranging from 30 seconds to two minutes, and later move on to 5 to 15 minute poses. Participants must provide their own materials.

At:

Manifest's Drawing Center Studios in Madisonville
4905 Whetsel Avenue (second floor)

Go here for more information or to register online (can also register at the door)

Cost: $12 ($6 for college and high school students)
(participants still must register in advance or upon arriving at the Drawing Center) 

Quickdraw session tomorrow

This is Glen Keane's life drawing. Search his drawings to cry.

Just a quick reminder that the Manifest Drawing Studio's Quickdraw session is tomorrow Saturday 6/7/14 from 11am-2pm. 

Come and draw if you need to capture motion, have accurate anatomy, and to be able to capture life in your drawings! I'm pretty sure since we're all artists that this is needed by everyone. 

Also, College and High School students get a discount!

You can register online or do so when you arrive- I am already signed up and so are some others so let's show them that we want this and that they need to do this again in the future! Support by attending!

Here is the Manifest site for more info/registering.

The drawing studio is at 4905 whetsel avenue, floor 2, madisonville, ohio.

See you there!

Gesture Drawing Session at Manifest!

Hi guys!

The folks at the Manifest Drawing Studio are so cool- I emailed them to see if they would be down for hosting a gesture life drawing session that is good for animators- short poses no longer than 10 or 15 minutes as well as short ones, mere minutes (or less!). And they are totally doing it!

Since we animators have such a volume of drawings to get through its really beneficial to be able to draw quickly and capture motion quickly- and this is how you develop that skill.

SO! Come to the session! Show them that animators need access to short poses!

Saturday June 7
11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Cost: $20 ($10 for college and high school students)
(participants still must register in advance or upon arriving at the Drawing Center) 

For info or to register visit the Manifest website!

The Wind Rises viewing tomorrow

The time has come! Tomorrow (Tuesday March 4) we are going to see The Wind Rises by Miyazaki at the Esquire Theatre, 7:15pm show. It's $6 Tuesday so the price couldn't be better! Email me at cincycan@gmail.com if you're coming so we can save you a seat! Should be a pretty nice crowd of artsy folks.

Comic Con at the Cincinnati Public Library May 5th

Public Library’s first Comic Con is May 5

Event includes panel discussion, free comic books, costumed characters, and awards ceremony
Comic book fans assemble! It’s time for the first Comic Con event Sunday, May 5, from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. in the atrium at the Main Library. The Library is joining forces with Arcadian Comics & Games and the Friends of the Public Library to present an afternoon filled with a comic book swap, booths, a comic book exhibit, a panel discussion with writers and illustrators, the Comic Con Drawing Contest award ceremony, the opportunity to take pictures with your favorite characters (Stormtroopers, Mandalorian Mercs, X-Men characters and more), and free comic books in celebration of Free Comic Book Day. Call 513-369-6900 or visit www.cincinnatilibrary.org/news/2013/comiccon.html.
Panel Discussion is at 1:30 p.m. in the Reading Garden Lounge

Moderator Jeff Suess — Local author: Animaniacs (No. 46), winner of the Strange New Worlds writing competition, short stories in Strange New Worlds IV, Mon Coeur Mort, and Torn Realities

David Michael Beck — Local illustrator: Star Wars, Jonah Hex, Justice League of America, etc.   
Chris Charlton — Owner of Assailant Comics and the writer of Binary Gray
Tim Fuller — Local illustrator: Hooha Comics, Twelve-Way with Cheese, and Zombie Marge web comic, a finalist for the 2012 S.P.A.C.E. award for best webcomic
Ken Henson — Local artist and a professor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. His credits include Splendid-Lite and Splendid-Darke
Mike Maydak — Local illustrator: The Blackbeard Legacy and 1782: the Year of Blood
Tony Moore — Local illustrator: The Walking Dead, Deadpool, Battle Pope, etc.
Carol Tyler —Local artist, writer, and professor. She is the recipient of an Eisner award and her latest graphic novel, You’ll Never Know: Soldier’s Heart, made TIME.com’s “cosmic comics” list. Her credits include A Graphic Memoir, Drawn & Quarterly, Late Bloomer, You’ll Never Know, etc. Her comic strip Tomatoes appears in Cincinnati Magazine.
Brian Williams —Local creator and writer at Raven Hammer Comics. Credits include Lucius Hammer)


The Main Library is at 800 Vine St. Call 513-369-6900 or visit www.cincinnatilibrary.org.
FRIENDS’ SHOP: The Friends of the Public Library Shop will be open during Comic Con. Merchandise available includes graphic novels, superhero toys and games, and superhero-themed Mighty Wallets (pictured left).
Presenting partners: Friends of the Public Library, and Arcadian Comics & Games.

Jared Lee: Tribute To Mike Thaler and Jared Lee at the USA Film Festival

Mike and Jared

During the next USA Film Festival in Dallas (which is the 27th annual Kid Film Festival, oldest and largest children's film festival in the USA) they will present A Tribute to Mike Thaler and Jared Lee on January 22nd.

Local illustrator Jared Lee and writer Mike Thaler have done 81 books together!  (Here are some of them: http://www.jaredlee.com/jared-lee-childrens-books.html) Their first book was published in 1981, 30 years ago!

The tribute will include a compilations of short films based on their books, Q & A, signing and reception.

Hopefully, Jared will send us pictures of the event. Congratulations to them both!

Cincinnati Rollergirls Fundraiser

I thought others may be interested, I am also donating some stuff to this:

The Cincinnati Rollergirls are having an art show/auction at the Northside Gallery from Wednesday, July 15th - Saturday August 1st, with an opening and closing reception.  This event is a fundraiser for the Cincinnati Rollergirls, so the proceeds will be donated to CRG.  

This is where you come in...

We need rollergirl/derby themed art to display and hopefully sell!   We can accommodate all types of media and would like to have a diverse range of pieces.   Also, think about small pieces that we can sell easily and make a quick profit.  I'm thinking, small photos, jewelry, sculptures, etc.

Photogs:  We would love to show any pieces you have left from the Rock-n-Rollergirls show and/or any new stuff.

The deadline for completed pieces is Friday, July 10th.  We will be installing pieces that weekend to be ready for the opening that wednesday.

I would also like a brief description of what you will be creating by the end of June so that I can start planning the exhibition.

Contact Emily Joy (sk8 Crime) for info or to submit at museofjoy@gmail.com